Nursery: How do people celebrate Lunar New Year?

This week in Nursery, we have read the story of ‘The Great Race’ by Emily Hiles. This book tells the story of the Jade Emperor who hears twelve animals having an argument because they want the New Year to be named after an animal but they each want it to be them. The emperor decides that the animals should have a race across the river and they will name the New Year after the winner. The rat is the winner but the emperor decides to give each animal a year in the order that they completed the race. We have been using small world toys and masks to retell the story.

We have also been talking about different things that people do to celebrate Lunar New Year.

We have also been counting out the correct number of coins into different red envelopes, matching numeral to quantity and developing our finger muscles when using chopsticks.